Hope for hedge funds

Stuff – Hedge funds meeting for their annual get-together in Monaco this week are hoping recovering profits will help placate clients, after the industry was heavily culled and suffered its worst year on record.

An exodus of investors followed a year in which hedge funds saw performance losses of 19 percent, a stark contrast to a decade in which people scrambled to get access to an industry that claimed it could make money in any market.

Significantly, one entire session of the June 16-18 GAIM conference in the Mediterranean resort is titled "The Rise of Investor Power."